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"No," Xue Zangxue replied, "this person is not good at playing musical instruments, and he can't play music."

Seeing Xue Suyi's expression of "How do you know, have you ever molested this woman?", Xue Zangxue felt a little headache.

"To play 'Crying Girl', you must have skills and comprehension beyond first-class musicians. If Bai Xuping had this ability, because of her leg injury, she gave up the oiran's seat to be a madam, which shows that she is really just a dancer. If she It's a musician, and according to her personality, she will definitely rely on her ability to crush ordinary Le Ji. More simply, have you ever noticed her hands? That's not the hands of a musician."

"What about the musician's hands?"

After Xue Suyi asked this question reflexively, she almost immediately remembered Uncle Bai's words - facing Xue Zangxue, if you have doubts about what he said, then you must ask if you don't understand.Only in this way can you prove that you are not a waste who only delays, but a temporarily useless waste who is trying to keep up with the rhythm of his thoughts, and may become a helper one day.

Fortunately, Xue Zangxue didn't notice his trembling expression, and still answered patiently: "There are many musicians in the flower well. The musicians who play the qin and drums are easy to distinguish. Their hands look soft, but they are actually strong. The calluses are on the fingertips. The nails will be very long, but they will not be short, and they must be kept at the most suitable length at all times to ensure the hardness of the nails, so that the best sound can be obtained when touching the strings."

"Of course, there are some subtle differences between the lyre and the fifty-string zither, but the hand shapes of these string players are not much different. Others, such as the sheng, drum and Xiaodi, also have similarities. People who are familiar with musical instruments can usually understand It’s easy to tell, and you’ll get some insights when you go to the music workshop to observe and observe.” Xue Zangxue raised his hand, shook his slender and well-articulated fingers a few times, and said, “But musicians are different. The difference is that--"

"Musicians know martial arts!" Xue Suyi answered.

"That's right, this woman has no internal strength at all." Xue Zangxue nodded kindly, fully affirming the fact that although Xue Suyi is a bit old, it is fortunate that she is not dead.

While talking, the two entered the mourning hall in a flash.

Dozens of wooden spiritual plaques are placed in the middle of the mourning hall, with the names of the women who died in Liuyan Pavilion written on them.

The incense flickered and the smoke was lingering.

Xue Zangxue took a closer look. Except for Sha Luo, the birth and death dates of the others were all 30 to [-] years ago, and the dates of death were almost on the same day, which was a bit creepy.

Xue Suyi knocked on the wall behind the incense burner, and the wall made a hollow sound.

"There can't be another room behind this location, it's only possible—"

"The chamber of secrets."

Xue Zangxue looked at Xue Suyi approvingly: "I already smelled a very unpleasant smell."

If a person is extremely confident that no one will care about his secrets that are not secrets, but he wants to keep these secrets, then this secret will usually not leave him too far.And the longer the time, the lower the defense, even if it is keeping important secrets, it is easy to slack off.

A secret that has been kept in the dust for 20 years, and even has become a daily hidden place, it will not be too difficult to enter.

Once again, Xue Suyi quickly found the switch of the secret room, which made Xue Zangxue very satisfied.

With the "click" sound of metal brackets, the wall that had been smoldering for a long time slowly turned over.

A bloody breath broke through the surrounding incense dust, and quickly occupied this small Buddhist hall.

All of a sudden, those black wooden spirit cards gave people an extremely strange feeling, like bloody souls returning to this place from the other side of hell through the boundless sea of ​​blood, and the air of mourning seemed to surround Xue Zangxue in essence.

Are these souls still wandering?

"Phew." Xue Zangxue pushed Xue Suyi aside, let out a breath, and bowed solemnly, "Ladies and gentlemen, Xue Zangxue, who is at the agarwood medicine shop, is entangled in mundane affairs, so I'm really sorry for coming here."

He walked towards the dark chamber.

Under the glamorous and corrupt surface of Fengyuechang, there will always be some filthy darkness that makes people vomit.It's just that some places can handle it very cleanly, and some places can't.Maybe out of helplessness, maybe for some special purpose.

This place is a hellish existence for those who have no intention of conceiving a child but are unwilling to destroy it.

Dark enough, closed enough, cold-blooded enough.

Xue Suyi stood at the door and looked at the dried blood and the blackened skeletons. She turned her face, half in the shadows, with a stiff expression.

"Is this also made by Sha Luo?"

After checking the bone fragments, Xue Zangxue went out, shaking his head and said: "No, these bones should have been hidden in the underground secret room for more than 20 years, and it shouldn't have much to do with this case. I checked the woman's bones here, Her legs are all broken, and her hands and feet are also chained to the wall. Bai Xuping, because of her lameness, cannot dance, thus loses her position as an oiran, and then becomes a madam, what can you imagine."

"Has her lame leg been broken? Was she imprisoned here, too?"

"It should be. Although I don't know what the price was for her to escape and take control of Liuyan Pavilion. But if there is no accident, it must be difficult to find people who know about this matter. They should all die unexpectedly. "

"Since she built a Buddhist hall here to save the dead and often come to worship, she is also very tolerant of the current girls in Liuyan Pavilion. No matter what happened back then, at least what she is doing now is not a bad thing, shouldn't it be a bad person?"

"That depends on the relationship between her and Death Sound Bell."

"Brother Xue, the three members of Shaluo's family were killed by Death Yinling, and the death of Shaluo's family is related to Bai Xuping, so Bai Xuping is still related to Death Yinling? But you said just now that Bai Xuping can't die bell."

"Who said that it must be a murderer if it is related to the death sound ring? I also said that the death sound ring is coming for me. Am I the murderer? However, we can know now that since the killer shot Qian Bangzhou first, and The next step may be Bai Xuping, so he should be the common intersection between Qian Bangzhou and Bai Xuping. If you really want to solve the problem, I am afraid that you have to start with what Qian Bangzhou has done recently. It’s a little more troublesome, but it can be handed over to Caiwei Pavilion. As for the old case 20 years ago, we have Boss Fu and Yun Po, so it’s not impossible to mention them.”

"Brother Xue, you..." Xue Suyi was a little uneasy.

"What? Are you afraid of ghosts?"

"I think Brother Xue, you suddenly became very persistent in this matter."

"Really, then you help me keep an eye on Bai Suping, she will have plenty of clues." Xue Zangxue smiled slightly at Xue Suyi.

***

The autumn night is like ink, and the wind is like a knife.

After Dark Cloud City enters autumn, the moon will appear in the sky less and less.

This is Xue Suyi's first time spending the night in Huajing.

It's a pity that it's not a beautiful day with a beautiful woman, but sticking to the roof of Liuyan Pavilion in the wind that hurts the skin.

His gray clothes made him almost blend with the ridge of the roof, like a piece of gray tiles that were already covered on the roof.

Under the tiles is the lobby of Liuyan Pavilion.

There are no guests tonight, but the Liuyan Pavilion, which has been closed for business for the past few days, is now brightly lit.

Bai Xuping stood in the middle of the lobby. Yang Ge, who usually liked to pretend to be sick to go to the pharmacy, and all the girls from Liuyan Pavilion gathered in the lobby.

Bai Xuping explained the big and small matters of Liuyan Pavilion to different people in an orderly manner. Everything was described neatly, and every answer was decisive. Xue Suyi could almost see Bai Xuping from the question and answer in this moment. How awe-inspiring everyday life really is.

Everyone nodded silently in response, as if a silent farewell.

Seeing that Bai Xuping had arranged everything as if he had explained the funeral, he waved the girls to leave the hall, then put on a black cloak, and quietly left from the inner courtyard of Sha Luo's house, Xue Suyi followed decisively.

There is absolutely something wrong with this woman.

In the middle of the third watch, there was a "knock knock" sound similar to the sound of insects from the corner of the Yuanfei Tower, and Xue Zangxue, who was dozing in the dark, suddenly opened his eyes.

Xue Zangxue quickly took off a dumb wind chime that was exactly the same as the entrance of the Chenxiang medicine shop from the corner of the tower, hid it in the skirt of his clothes, and ran towards the direction where the song in the rain was most intense.

That direction is...

Bai Xuping is a woman who really doesn't move, she's going to make a big deal out of it.

The City Lord's Mansion of Wuyun City is located in the middle of two herringbone-shaped intersecting streets, and the front and rear doors are opened on the two streets respectively.It is a majestic and magnificent palace-style building, which looks very tall among the small bungalows.

When Xue Zangxue rushed to the City Lord's Mansion, he didn't see anyone, and the "cracking" sound in his arms stopped.

He stared at the mansion in front of him. This building is quite old. The eaves made of bluish black tiles are slightly upturned and somewhat rounded. There are some moss on the tiles, but not much, but it should have not been cleaned for a long time. .

Something is wrong here.

There are no guards, nor any popularity, like a dead house.

Xue Zangxue suddenly couldn't remember what the city lord's mansion looked like on weekdays, but it was not like this in his impression.

The night is sticky and oppressive.

A few towering ancient trees grew out of the yard, with their twigs entangled, and they looked ghostly at night.

Suddenly, pink and white Chonghua flowers bloomed on the ancient tree one by one!

Almost in the blink of an eye, pink and white covered all the branches and floated above the building like a cloud.A gust of wind blew, and snowflakes scattered in all directions, like a gust of pink and white goose feather snow descending on the entire Wuyun City.

A huge silver plate shone outside the ancient tree at some point, and the brilliance comparable to the sun was dazzling on the black silk-like sky. Thousands of petals were coated with moonlight, and the ancient tree turned into a mythical moon. Chonghua.

The night was quiet and deep, Xue Zangxue stood on the street with his hands in his hands, looking at the powder snow, as if bathed in infinite cleanliness.

The holy silver light seemed to be in some strange rhythm, as the petals brushed over his head, fell to his shoulders, and finally fell to the ground, slowly covering Xue Zangxue's insteps, as soft as a lover's hand, making people feel Don't want to move.

In the empty night, a long sigh broke this gentle rhythm. In that sigh was sadness, anger, helplessness, and disillusionment.

A sigh of several emotions.

It's a pity that flower petals can't understand people's sighs, and dead things can't understand the feelings of living people.

"Unknown monk? Is this to let Xue see through the illusory world of mortals and become a monk?"

The petals fluttered, like a sensible child swirling around Xue Zangxue, as if wanting to comfort Xue Zangxue who sighed suddenly.

Xue Zangxue smiled disdainfully, pointed to the ancient cloud-like tree and said, "Come down, let Xue Mou teach you what an unknown monk is."

The strong wind struck back, and the petals exploded from Xue Zangxue's surroundings in an instant. The dozens of feet around Xue Zangxue were not stained with dust, but beyond that, there were all dead leaves and wreckage.

The body is not stained by the world of mortals, and the soul stays in the underworld with only a skeleton.

However, the pink and white petals still reluctantly floated down from the tree, wanting to get close to Xue Zangxue.

"Since you don't understand human language," Xue Zangxue lowered his voice, "Then get out!"

His voice has always been warm and clean, but now it is like a cold ice blade, piercing every piece of tenderness in the flower rhyme, and all the pretense of peace is broken.

The strings are broken.

Mirage has become a shameful piece of trash.

"It's not even as good as Guan Ruoxu, who dared to attack me with sound. People these days are always so courageous."

It was not the first time Xue Zangxue heard the sound of the broken string. Almost at the moment when the high-pitched voice neighed, Xue Zangxue's toes had already touched the ground, and he performed the lightness posture that was ridiculed by Boss Fu privately many times.

The flaw has been revealed.

The same Xue Zangxue appeared in six directions, and he knew very well that within ten steps, that person would definitely be caught by him.

"Hidden snow."

A call came from behind.

Xue Zangxue paused.

Which idiot came out to ruin my business?

It happened to trigger the phantom within the phantom's sound attack. You must know that there is more than one killer here.

Before Xue Zangxue had time to look back at the idiot who did something wrong, he got into the game smoothly and suffered a blow.

Really, there is no more annoying person in the world than a luthier!

The author has something to say:

Xue Zangxue: I suspect that I owed Boss Mo a lot of money in my previous life.

Boss Mo (rarely with a serious face): Impossible, I didn't open a tavern in my previous life.